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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Total player value around MLB

Skyking162 is doing a wonderful position review series at his site, and he's ranking players following a very similar methodology to that I've discussed in the player value series. In fact, our e-mail conversations last month were a big part of the reason that I decided to do my series--he really helped me take my thinking to the next level. If you see differences in our rankings, it's because a) he uses a slightly different base runs model than I do to generate linear weights, and b) his fielding estimates are based on ZR and RZR only, whereas I threw in FSR as well. As far as Cincinnati Reds are concerned, the biggest discrepancy between his and my datasets is Brandon Phillips, for whatever reason.